Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
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Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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